Archaeologist have found a Maya complex in northern Guatamala that included astronomical observatories, pyramids, and complex ...

While other Maya settlements like Chichen Itza remained inhabited well into the 12 th century C.E., Tikal is thought to have collapsed around the year 900. To this day, the reasons for its ...

A scholar in Mayan history would surely argue that what is now Mexico’s most famous archaeological site was never exactly lost. While Chichen Itza had ... drew up maps of Hampi, the ancient ...

Mexico’s Maya and Aztec pyramids deserve a spot high on your travel ... which caused cracks in the structure. The above map of Mexican pyramids shows several impressive ruins located along the country ...

You can take a bus to Tikal—Guatemala’s better known but arguably over-touristed Mayan treasure—and Mexico’s Chichen Itza. You can take a train to Machu Picchu. They’re incredible ...

and Tikal. Fieldwork on the ground is yet to be conducted by archaeologists, but based on remote sensing data, which maps entire landscapes under dense forests in minute detail, it seems this lush and ...

only LiDAR maps, because no one has ever been there with local residents, possibly suspecting that ruins may lie beneath the mounds of earth. Although this study is the first to reveal Maya ...

A huge Maya city has been found under a jungle in ... The complex, named Valeriana, was uncovered using Lidar, a type of laser survey that maps structures buried beneath vegetation.

Constructed over 1,200 years ago, the imposing 65m-tall (213ft) Temple IV at Tikal ... to each by roads that the Maya likely traversed on foot. "As we get to map more and more of the Yucatán ...

The Maya civilization is one of the biggest and most famous of pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas. For over 3,000 years, the Mayas lived throughout the Maya Region, which consisted of ...

When archaeologists examining laser scans of the region around the massive Mayan city of Tikal looked in more ... The impressive Mayan city of Chichen Itza is one of the world's most recognisable ...